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Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer move to New York City and meet up with their Mogwai friend, Gizmo, when a series of accidents creates a new generation of diverse gremlins. Billy, Kate, and Gizmo must once again use all their experience to prevent another catastrophe. Special features included.

A suspense-comedy in which Tom Hanks portrays a suburbanite whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block.

On the advice of her doctor, a Los Angeles television reporter goes with her husband for rest and relaxation to a therapy center in California. After nights of being awaken by savage shrieks and unearthly cries, the television reporter goes into the forest to find the source of the noise.

Assorted sketches spoof low-budget movies of the '50s and late-night TV commercials.
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Welcome to Miracle Pictures, where "if it's a good film, it's a miracle." This is a tale of want-to-be actresses seeking to make it in Hollywood.

• Special features: Widescreen version presented in a "matted" format
• 10 minutes of never-before-seen footage
• Commentary with director Joe Dante, Zack Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Dick Miller
• Commentary with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnell and special effects artist Chris Walas
• Behind-the-scenes documentary
• Photo/storyboard gallery
• Cast/crew film highlights
• Theatrical trailer
• Language: English Dolby surround 5.1 ; English Dolby surround stereo ; French Dolby surround stereo ; Spanish Dolby surround stereo
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.

When a young bank teller inadvertently breaks the rules of Mogwai care, his new pet, Gizmo, multiplies into a bevy of mischievous brothers, who soon morph into malevolent scaly creatures.

Maggie McKeown (Menzies) is a private investigator tracing a couple missing in rural Texas. She meets recluse Paul Grogan (Dillman) whom she recruits to help her. They trace the couple to a supposedly deserted Army base where they drain a pool looking for the missing couple. Mad scientist Dr. Robert Hoak (McCarthy) then appears, and informs them that they have just released a school of super-bred killer piranha into the river. Hoak had been hired by the Army to develop an indestrutible strain of piranha to infest the rivers of Vietnam, but the war ended before the fish were ready. Meanwhile, the fish are heading downstream toward a summer camp where the children (Grogan's daughter among them) are about to have an inner-tube race.

Movie promoter Lawrence Woolsey bring his unique brand of flashy showmanship to the unsuspecting residents of Key West, Florida. Fifteen-year-old fan Gene Loomis can't wait for Woolsey's arrival, who is in town to promote his latest offering of atomic power gone berserk. His vision takes on a sudden urgency as the Cuban Missile Crisis places the real threat of atomic horror just 90 miles off the coast.

Meet the Commando Elite--toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites, kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down.

Comedy set in a high school where the students have the lowest academic average in Southern California, the athletes haven't won a game in years, and three principals have gone insane. Features scenes of a concert by the Ramones.

Edgar G. Ulmer, the man off-screen (77 min.): "A nice homage to the filmmaking genius behind The Black Cat, Detour, and The Man from Planet X. Featuring testimonials from Roger Corman, John Landis, Joe Dante, Wim Wenders, and Detour's ultimate femme fatale Ann Savage, The Man Off-Screen paints a vividly impressionistic portait of a no-budget auteur stylistically able to 'take a rat and make Thanksgiving dinner out of it'"--Container.
Isle of forgotten sins (81 min.): "A characteristically lurid Ulmer-helmed 1943 South Seas island adventure that pits John Carradine and Gale Sondergaard against Sidney 'Charlie Chan' Toler in a deadly hunt for deep sea gold"--Container.

Four short horrorific tales are anthologized in this film as a tribute to Rod Serling and his popular TV series.
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• Disc
• 1: The money pit / Amblin Entertainment ; Steven Spielberg presents a Richard Benjamin film ; produced by Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Art Levinson ; written by David Giler ; directed by Richard Benjamin (91 min.). Disc
• 2: The 'burbs / Imagine Entertainment presents a Rollins-Morra-Brezner production ; a Universal release ; produced by Larry Brezner and Michael Finnell ; written by Dana Olsen ; directed by Joe Dante (106 min.)
• Dragnet / an Applied Action/Bernie Brillstein production ; a Tom Mankiewicz film ; a Universal picture ; produced by David Permut and Robert K. Weiss ; written by Dan Aykroyd and Alan Zweibel and Tom Mankiewicz ; directed by Tom Mankiewicz (102 min.).

The money pit: A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
The 'burbs: In a typical American neighborhood, some strange new neighbors, the Klopeks, come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson.
Dragnet: A comedy that plays homage to the famed original police drama of the '50s and '60s. Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange thefts which have one thing in common: visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes.